kernel.git/drivers/net/veth.c, branch linux-2.6.30.y

veth: prevent oops caused by netdev destructor

2009-04-27T10:04:58Z

From: Stephen Hemminger The veth driver will oops if sysfs hooks are open while module is removed. The net device destructor can not point to code in a module; basically there are only two possible safe values: NULL - no destructor, or free_netdev - free on last use Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

veth: Allow setting the L3 MTU

2009-03-04T07:36:04Z

The limitation to only 1500 byte mtu's limits the utility of the veth device for testing routing. So implement implement a configurable MTU. For consistency I drop packets on the receive side when they are larger than the MTU. I count those drops. And I allow a little padding for vlan headers. I also test the mtu when a new device is created with netlink because that path currently bypasses the current mtu setting code. Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

veth: Fix carrier detect

2009-03-02T04:44:21Z

The current implementation of carrier detect in veth is broken. It reports the link is down until both sides of the veth pair are administatively up and then forever after it reports link up. So fix veth so that it only reports link up when both interfaces of the pair are administratively up. Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

veth : add the set_mac_address capability

2009-02-22T08:04:45Z

Fix lost set_mac_address capability. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netdev: add more functions to netdevice ops

2008-11-21T04:14:53Z

This patch moves neigh_setup and hard_start_xmit into the network device ops structure. For bisection, fix all the previously converted drivers as well. Bonding driver took the biggest hit on this. Added a prefetch of the hard_start_xmit in the fast path to try and reduce any impact this would have. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

veth: convert to net_device_ops

2008-11-20T06:42:39Z

Convert to net_device_ops function table. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

veth: remove unused list

2008-10-29T06:02:33Z

The veth network device is stored in a list in the netdev private. AFAICS, this list is never used so I removed this list from the code. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

veth: Remove useless veth field

2008-10-29T06:02:33Z

The veth private structure contains a netdev pointer refering to its peer. This field is never used and it is pointless because if we can access, the veth_priv, that means we already have the netdev which is stored in veth_priv->dev. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET] NETNS: Omit net_device->nd_net without CONFIG_NET_NS.

2008-03-25T19:39:53Z

Introduce per-net_device inlines: dev_net(), dev_net_set(). Without CONFIG_NET_NS, no namespace other than &init_net exists. Let's explicitly define them to help compiler optimizations. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki

veth: fix dev refcount race

2008-02-20T08:21:47Z

When deleting the veth driver, veth_close calls netif_carrier_off for the two extremities of the network device. netif_carrier_off on the peer device will fire an event and hold a reference on the peer device. Just after, the peer is unregistered taking the rtnl_lock while the linkwatch_event is scheduled. If __linkwatch_run_queue does not occurs before the unregistering, unregister_netdevice will wait for the dev refcount to reach zero holding the rtnl_lock and linkwatch_event will wait for the rtnl_lock and hold the dev refcount. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Signed-off-by: David S. Miller